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Stripping Tapes?

minnirdfilmer
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Feb 28, 2005, 12:07 AM

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I was wondering what your thoughts on stripping tapes were. With my vx1000, should I plug in a mic turned off and record color bars for the whole tape? Would this be better for my vx? or should I not bother?

Bob A
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Feb 28, 2005, 8:30 AM

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There is absolutely no benefit as far as shooting goes - VX or otherwise. Some believe that it will help prevent timecode resets during shooting when sloppy handling results in an unrecorded gap on the tape. But some NLEs stumble just as bad (or worse as it is harder to find) with a non-consecutive time code which can result with the same sloppy tape handling with a pre-stripped tape. It is much easier to fix bad timecode after the fact by doing a firewire dub if there is a timecode problem of any kind. Striping puts a lot of unnecessary wear on equipment, and for those purists, they are then using a "used" tape.

Edward
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Feb 28, 2005, 11:35 AM

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I agree with Bob. It's a waste of time and puts needless use on your equipment.
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mvpdigital
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Mar 1, 2005, 12:00 PM

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There were two main reason why "Striping" a tape was a recomended activity.

1. playing, or recording the entire tape and then rewinding, "packs" the tape to prevent alignment issues when recording to the media. Many people still live by this, but many just fast forward, then rewind the tape, and sadly this doesn't align the tape the way playing it along the full tape path does. This in my opinion is a real waste of time, and wear on your equipment and media.

2. in the anologue A/B roll suites of yesterday, many would lay down (Assemble / Stripe) a tape with continuous timecode so that they could then go back and "insert edit" video and audio independently.

I personally believe that these two processes are in the past.

Mark Foley
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Mar 4, 2005, 7:29 AM

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Agree with Edward...useless process for digital tape....

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